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Fresno Art Museum Sculpture Park. The museum traces its history back to the Fresno Art League, a group of local artists that was founded in 1948 and that gathered sufficient community support to incorporate as the Fresno Art Center in 1949. [3] The group established a permanent space to occupy in 1956.
The building across from Hotel Fresno operated for 34 years until a new city hall, four times larger, was completed in 1941. This two-story, L-shaped building was designed by architect Ernest J. Kump and located at Fresno and M streets. The building later became known as "Old City Hall" and was placed on Fresno's Register of Historic Places. [4]
Kearney Park is a historic public park located west of Fresno, California. It is former residence of Martin Theodore Kearney and the community center of his Fruit Vale Estate agricultural colony. Kearney Mansion Museum is located in the park and operated by the Fresno Historical Society. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Location of Fresno County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fresno County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fresno County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
Playland was built on the southwest corner of Roeding Park, bordered to the west by California State Route 99. At the time, Fresno Chaffee Zoo was small but popular, and building an amusement park was seen as a good way to capitalize on the zoo's popularity and contribute to the city's culture and raise funds for public projects.
Fashion Fair is an enclosed regional shopping mall in Fresno, California, United States, anchored by two Macy's stores, JCPenney, and Forever 21.Originally opened in 1970, Fashion Fair was expanded in 1983 (to accommodate Macy's and a new food court) and in 2005 (with the addition of an outdoor lifestyle wing).
International style architecture in California (29 P) Pages in category "Modernist architecture in California" The following 175 pages are in this category, out of 175 total.
The modern aesthetics of high technology is to a large degree defined by the machine aesthetic. Just like machine aesthetic, the high-tech architecture proclaims that the form follows function, yet frequently completely detaches the form from function and resorts instead to the imitation of appearance of a factory or a restaurant kitchen. [23]